Where I went to school in the '70's, we had Buchla and ARP synths,
and I always found the contrast between those to be quite marked.
The ARP was like a lab instrument for EE's: precise, logical,
calibrated, does exactly what you tell it to, nothing more and
nothing less. The Buchla was, in a word, funky. You didn't tell
the Buchla what you wanted. You kinda put it in the general
neighborhood of where you wanted to go sonically, and it went the
rest of the way on its own. The Buchla was capable of a lot more
surprises than the ARP.
I'd be real careful about trying to improve the Buchla with EE
fixes. I don't suppose lower noise op-amps would hurt anything,
but even trying to improve VCO drift might have damaged its karma.
-BobC
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From: osthelder [mailto:
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Both Buchla and Moog were supplying artists with the ability to create
sounds without the ordeal of splicing tape. One control protocol
offered the ability to conform to music as it was expected, while the
other demanded experimentation and the abdication of control at times.
Chub-out of control and proud of it!